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Complete Definition of "add insult to injury"

English

Verb
add insult to injury

  1. idiom To further a loss with mockery or indignity.

#: As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own.

Translations
Finnish: pahentaa asiaa entisestään
Danish: Føje spot til skade
Bangla: kata ghaye nuner chite

See also
beat a dead horse
rub salt in the wounds

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